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MEM /RIAL

A STATE UNIVERSITY.'

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

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Agricultural and Mechanical College,

To the Honorable the President and Members of the

Constitutional Convention of the State of fcoui&id'ha:

Gentlemen — There has been so much error and mis-
representation, in regard to the ordinance introduced
by Mr. George, of Webster, concerning

•A STATE UNIVERSITY,''

that I would respectfully beg leave to make the following
statement:

The ordinance proposes to unite the Law and Medical
Departments of the University of Louisiana, in New
Orleans, and this Academic Institution, at Baton Rouge,
into one State University — under one charter — without
any change in the present location of these Depart-
ments, or any essential change in their present organ-
ization.

The object is:

1. To secure for Louisiana a complete university,
instead of having, as now, two incomplete, or fragments

of, universities.

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2. To relieve Louisian i legislation of the charge, to
which it is now amenabl \ of not comprehending what
a university is.

3. There is no wish, or intention, to remove the
present Academical Department of the University of
Louisiana from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. Any
assertion to the contrary is purely gratuitous.

There is, indeed, nothing to remove but the persons
of the professors; and tin not needed, for other

professors are already here at Baton Rouge doing
identically the same work, and more besides. This
institution is a literary school, as well as a scientific one.

But, useless for State purposes, let the Academical
Department in New Orleans no longer be considered a
State College. It can be very useful, however, as a City
College; and such let it be converted into, to be sup-
ported out of the public school fund, and controlled by
the public school authorities. It has no endowment
fund, and the State of Louisiana is now too poor to sup-
port it. Let it simply be transferred from the list of
University Institutions to Public School Institutions.

4. To keep the Academical Department in New Orleans
from being everlastingly in the way of forming a correct
system of university-education in Louisiana.

Like some of our Louisiana railroads, dead or dying,
it is of no use but to be In the way of some other enter-
prise that might do good, were it out of the way. It
lives, at least, on paper, and has its chartered privileges

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and vested rights. And though all signs of life be gone,
and it forgotten long years together, yon have only to
propose to establish a State University on a proper
footing, to see the old skeleton appear and hear its dry
bones begin to rattle.

The advantages are :

1. To concentrate the State's resources upon one
University, to make sure of its success — have one good
school ; instead of dividing the State's resources
for higher education between two Universities — to have
one, or both, eventually fail, or, at best, be two poor*
schools.

2. To keep at home — have educated in Louisiana,
through the influence of a first-rate University — the
hundreds of Louisiana youths who now go to other
States and countries for an education.

The money thus kept in Louisiana, and spent among
our own people would be enormous.

3. To prevent the Academic Department in New
Orleans from being considered the City University, and
this Academic Department at Baton Rouge the Country
University, with the prejudice and antipathy that
would inevitably ensue, and the serious injury to both.

4. To give the Medical Department of the University
in Newr Orleans sufficient room for its necessary pur-
poses. A portion of its building, as assigned it by law,
is now occupied by the Academic Department.

8, To infuse new life ;u d spiril into bhe La\? Depart-

nieut in New Orleans, win h for want of proper interest
felt and taken in it, for w ant of proper sympathy and
support, is now <lroopiuy. It closed its recent session
with only twelve (12) stud mts.

(>. To centre the affections and love of the who-le
people of Louisiana on one State institution of learn-
ing; to make the people of the whole State (city and
country) feel that the Law and Medical Departments in
New Orleans, and the Academic Department at Baton
Rouge, are theirs, belonging to and representing Lonsi-
axa, and not, as now, the two former to the city and the
latter to the country.

This feeling in common, or universality of senti-
ment— with the sympathy and support it would engen-
der— would alone, without a dollar from the State, huild
up a State school; and without the affection and love
of the people, of the whole people of Louisiana, all
efforts of the State to found a university are vain.

The sentiment of the people breathed into it, the
State University is a living soul : without that sentiment,
though endowed with all the wealth of Croesus, it is
but a lifeless body.

7. To he an active principle in unifying the people of
Louisiana, educating together youths from city and
country, having them grow up together, knowing one
another and loving one another: doing away with local
prejudice . country against city, and city against conn-

try, now so hurtful to the best interests of the whole
people.

So strong is this prejudice, the country holding the
balance of power, thai one of the great political parties
of our State has not consented, for forty //ears and riiore,
to selecl Its candidate for the high office of Governor,
from amongst all the admitted talent, and ability, and
worth of the great City of New Orleans. Surely, it is
time for such folly to stop.

8. State-love and State-pride will grow and intensify
under the influence of a strong and respectable State
University, complete in all its departments, and capable
of affording good academical and professional education.

So much for University education for the State.

To accommodate such of the bright youths of New
Orlean%, as may be attending the present Academical De-
partment of the University of Louisiana and the High
School in that city, and who may not have the means to
attend the State University here — say, twenty per cent, of
those now pursuing collegiate or academic studies there,
let there be established out of those twro institutions (the
present Academic Department of the University of
Louisiana in New Orleans and the High School of that
city)

"A CITY COLLEGE -

of high grade, with tuition free, to be supported
out of the public school fund, or the general fund, and
managed by the public school authorities.

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Thus, no youth in New Orleans would be deprived
of a single academic facility he now enjoys; and every
youth in the State, capable of receiving it, be he rich
or be he poor, would have every advantage of a
collegiate- education, tuition free, that Louisiana could
give him, through the New Orleans City College and
the Louisiana State University.

Such are some of the main reasons on which is based
Mr. George's ordinance concerning "A State Universi-
ty ; " and such some of the chief considerations connect-
ed with it. It may be well to dwell on them somewhat
at length.

The public institutions of our State ought to be
located where the public interests would be best sub-
served, where the general public of Louisiana would wish
them to be. And the several departments of th^ State
University ought, each, to be located at the most suit-
able point for its own specific work.

No one would think of locating the Medical Depart-
ment elsewhere than in New Orleans. Few think
differently about the location of the Law Department.
And the best proof that New Orleans is not the place
for the Academic Department, is, that while the Law
and Medical Departments have, in general, prospered
in New Orleans, the Academic Department there, has
in general failed.

From 1860 to 1878, the Academic Department
of the University of Louisiana (in New Orleans)

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had no existence whatever; and before 1860 it had
no existence, if we are correctly informed, except
such as it obtained through its private lessees^ Messrs.
Dufau & Sears.

Few parents, residing out of New Orleans, would
think of sending a son to college in New Orleans ; and
not many residents even of New Orleans, would patron-
ize a college located there, except those who have not
the means of sending their sons to college out of Newr
Orleans, or those residents who may use it for a
short time as a preparatory school for some other
college.

Three out of every four persons in Louisiana live
out of New Orleans — in the country ; and it is idle to
expect country parents to send their sons to college in
that city,

What means the heavy outgo of New Orleans people
every year, beginning in May and June, and their return
only in October and November, if New Orleans is a
good place for continuous, earnest college work for nine
or ten months in the year ? No ; the same reason that
points so strongly to New Orleans as the proper place
for the Medical Department, warns us not to commit the
folly of locating the Academic Department of the Uni-
versity there. But for such students as poverty, or other
fortuitous circumstances, may prevent leaving New
Orleans for academic advantages, let us establish a (My
college of high grade, to be supported out of the City

Public School Fund, or tin General Fund, and managed
by Hie City school authorities.

An Academic Departn I of a State University, if
located in New Orleans, i in never be, in fact, a Stale
college. It can never be really other than a local city
college. Then lei the one there now be, in law and

name, what virtually il is. a cit// college, and under city
control, with tithon free.

Louisiana, in her poverty and sparseness of popula-
tion, cannot afford to sustain two State colleges oi let-
ters and science, one here and another* in New Orleans.

Colleges and Universities — to be efficient — can but he
cosily. After buildings are erected, and able professors
secured, then conies the greater - of suitable

libraries, apparatus, museums, etc. Without these
helps, any college, however able its faculty, must fall
far short of doing its proper work. The Academic
Department of the University of Louisiana, in New-
Orleans, has. we believe, little or nothing off these
neces tids to ml instruction; and to sup-

ply them, would cost the Slate many thousand dollars.
At Baton Jl beginning has already been made in

procuring an apparatus, museum and library — the
library of 14JMM > volume-, the best in Louisiana, and
the third c ibrary in importance in the South.

The question would naturally arise: why should a
State, in the financial dist ss in which Louisiana finds
herself, go In the uimeeessj ry expense of dnplicatiny a

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costly library, apparatus, museum, etc.* to say nothing
of duplicating costly professorships in \ew Orleans,
when the Slate College already established in Baton
Rouge, and founded on the United States grants; has
the same, and other chairs, and will answer all reason-
able purposes of State Academical Education ?

Louisiana is. we believe, the only State in the Union
which has placed the Academic Department of its §tate
University in its chief city, or indeed in a large city.
And the past experience of Louisiana in this regard
would not warrant the present State Convention in
continuing- or attempting to maintain such Academic
Department of the University in New Orleans in the
future.

hi some of the large cities of our country, colleges
hate been founded and located by private or sectarian
agencies. Notably, the Columbia College in the City of
New York, and the wealthiest college in the United
States. Yet its able President, Dr. F. A. P. Barnard,
well known in our Southwest as the former President
of the University of Mississippi, in an able paper to the
Board of Trustees in 1870, recommended the removal
of that college to some location in the country, because
the college, with all its wealth— say $20,000,000 of
endowment — and with all its powerful patrons and
friends, could never attain to the full measure of its
usefulness in the city of New York.

Vanderhilt gave the university that bears his name

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to Nashville, auo Johns Hopkins d d the same (of IJalti-
niore : the Slate- of Ten in ssee an< Maryland, lowevrr.
loealhu.' Uw.lv Staff Institutions, or OQllegies respectively.
in the smaller cit'.'s of Ki oxville a id Aj uiajx >l i.- . And
if some millionaire wonld plant a greal university in
New Orleans, let us all rejoice-. Btit let lie Hiati
Louisiana act as wisely as Maryland and Tennes
have done, and locate ils State Academical Coll
elsewhere than in New Orleans.

While no Stale but Louisiana lias, we believe, estab-
lished any Department of its State UniverMly in a great
city, except such professifnal departments as those <»f
Law, Medicine, etc., yet in all the principal cities of
this country, there is a High School or City Col-
lege as a part of the public school system. And such
there should be in New Orleans, for the benefit of the
bright young fellows of that city, who would receive.
and thirst for, high academical learning, but who have
not the means to go out of New Orleans to ohtain it:
and to all such p< >oi . but worthy, youths, tuition should be
tree, and not. as now, in the Academical Department
of the University of Louisiana, at a chai ge of some
$36 a session.

We have thus far spoken mainly of \eademical
Education, but Medical Education is, perhaps, of more
vital concern to Louisiana.

When we reflect how much Hie material prosperity of
the State, and especially thai of New Qrk »ns. depend-

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on its healthfullness, we can hardly under-estimate the

services of the highly educated and skilful physician.
And what is Louisiana doing for Medical Kducatioii !
Beyond the personal exert roife of a tew devoted physi-
cians, almost nothing.

(io to the Medical Departnffenl of the rniversity of
Louisiana in \ew Orleans. ;md the true lover of learn-
ijil: will ho surprised, and mortified, at the too patent
signs of neglect by the State. A museum, good twenty
years ago, hut nothing, we believe, dorie for it since :
no lihrary or reading-room for the medieal students,
and the professors even cramped for room (space) for
their necessary purposes of instruction, and that because
the Academical Department has been thrust in upon
them, and now occupies a portion of the quarters
which the law designed for the Medical Department.

Such is, at present, the bad condition of the Medical
Department of the University of Louisiana, in New
Orleans, and such the poor facilities for instruction
which the State of Louisiana has extended to its able
Medical Faculty. It is our wish to come to the relief
of the Medical Department by removing from it the
intrusive presence, in its own proper quarters, of the
Academic Department, which has no warrant in law, or
public necessity, to be there in the east wing of the
University Building.

The faculty of the Medical Department memorialized
the Legislature, March 3d, 1*77. to remove from their

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Iwildiiifttfre vgricultural and Mechanic* College which
had ht vii i hfporarily placed in it in 1874. The m

assigned w i- that theynee< rd the W/c/H)uilding for th»'ir
mcessarv .ii poses, and t iat the pi isenc« of the A
cultural and Mechanical College was an injustice
injury to the Medical roll* ie. to wliich the Legislate e
in 1861, op the collapse ol the t Academical Department,
had given the v\ hole east w Lng of the Uniyersity Build-
ing, except two rooms which should he devoted to the
\e\v Orleans Academy of Sciences.

The Legislature in 1877. was so impressed with the
force of the memorial of t lie Medical Faculty that the
act of 1874. e&tfrblisfaittg an Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College was repealedin so far as it affected the building
or quarters of the Medical College. The Agncutural
and Mechanical College was ordered aid, and the huild-
ing directed to he restored to those whom tic L< Liislature
had in 1874 urected to give it tempwibrilt h the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College, viz: to the Board of
Administrators of the University for the use. of course.
of the Medical Department. This was the intention.
if not the words, of the law,^

The undo signed, acting in his official capacity as
Ci esident <>f the Agricultural and Mechanical College
• I- . in \o\<miher. 1877, aclually " refctove '" said build-
in;, to the 1 niversity of Louisiana, hy formally deliVe'r-

i l) g t lio kes to the Dean of the Medic;; V 1 1 1 1 > .

'I he act < E 1877, passed t the instan c of the Medical

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Faculty, was designed to "r*pbalv the ad of 1874. in
so far as il look from them, through their governing
hoard of Administrators, a portion of their building,
and to "restore" it hack to them, through the same
administrative agency* The Legislature, whatever its
ultimate object, could only deal properly in either case,
of taking away or restoring the building, through the
corporate authorities of the University, namely, throng] i
the Board of Administrators.

If this position is correct, it is contrary to lair for the
Academic Department of the University to occupy any
portion of the east (or Medical) wing of the University
Building. And as it is occupying essentially the same
portion of the building, from which the Legislature
removed the Agricultural and Mechanical College,
because it was an imposition upon, and an interference
with, the Medical Department; clearly, the Academical
Department must be equally in the way of, and equally
a hindrance, to the Medical Department.

The Law Department, for some reason or other, is
not doing well, only some twelve students on the roll
at the recent commencement. It has but little to call
its own besides the brains of its professors and its past
glorious history. xV furniture cart could carry all its
materiel, and then not have a full load.

Such. then, is the status of the University of Lou-
isiana in New Orleans: an Academical Department
deatt one day and dying the next, of only three (&) pro-

willi none 61 the ueces-arv appliances for a
cottegv, stud \m less at bi for a Si m school, a Medi-
cal Department neglected )\' lie ! and as i lliat
e no' difticn yv enoilgb be nin.iintd'. tl vm-
i c a 1 Department i h rust in ipon it, contrary to law. and
depriving il of Hiq n< Oil] or space, to grow
and il n eiivrfl in : and a Law Oeparti iei il thai
dmosl b to have failed outrigM.

Some change is necessary1 in thai institution, hhiic
new life needed; and we propose to make .hat mange,
tfl put I sitf education in Louisiana on a proper

footing, and to infuse the necessary vitality into ail its
departmei ts. hy dropping from its organization ail that
is useless, and concentrating our en .-rides and resour-
ces on only what is necessary.

The Ac Mimical Departpient in New Orl -;n is is i.
le<s a- a : t\te school, and as such ran never pro
but it can le turned into a cif// college oi high school,
becoming the crown of the city system of public
schools : ai d such let it be made into.

New York has its State Academical Department at
Ithaca, and \ev vork City ha- its mil dity CtfHfege (or
Univei^ityi art of its city p*i i > 1 i < - school system.

Maryland has its State college at Annapolis, whih Bal-
timore has its oHp i >lle e, as its highest city p ihlic
school. Ohio has its State college ear Columbus, and
Cincinnati it.- free pubhc city colle. e. Illinois I as its
State tniver&ilj al I '!>•• ia. Chicag i having at the

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& me time its own city high school. - Similarly, Michi-
jjriin. .Missouri, California and other Status, have their
one, qnd only one, Statu Universilv. located usually in a
country district or in some small city, while the large
cities of those States have, each, their oWn city high
schools, or city colleges, free to all.

Now. what does all Ihis show! Simply, that the
Siates generally recognize a difference in pr*»gif?le
between a university system of education, and a ui cue
school system of education. And so there is. You
sic wisdom and experience tending all the while lo
concentrate the State's resources for the higher or
University Education, but to scatter its resources as far
as practicable (without waste) for Elementary Education.
That is: put, if possible, a public school in every
neighborhood in the State, with a high school, or even
local college, in the principal towns and cities: this is
a correct public School system; but when you come to
a system of university education, the reverse should be
your rule of action. Concentrate! concentrate, is the
true principle of higher University Education ; and it
is an axiom now among all able educators in this
country and in Europe. -

Depart from this law and you must pay the penalty
of having a weak, inefficient system of higher Academ-
ical Education. In the United State.-, generally, we
havu too many colleges and universities — say 400; and
the result is. their genera] inefficiency — Louisiana, even.
having <i\ or eight" and all together would not make

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om good uiiiv arsity. En land is wiser; with all her
population a*< wealth, slh his but six U \ irsities; mi
imperial h qssia has.bul e iili .

Tuis State of Louisiana cannot properly support two
State 'Academical College and he Academical Depart-
ment of the University of Louisiana, in New Orleans,

has but little right to efcperl a re-chartering (if.
indeed, it has now a legal charter) after lying actually
dead from 1860 to 1878, eighteen years of its so-called
(or paper) existence, and only resurrected last \ car by
I he perversion of the poll tax from its true arid legiti-
mate application to the free public schools, the Charity
Hospital and "the University of \k\v () ;lk\\> '" (See
consitution of 1868. articles 141 and 14i;

The old "Uniyersity of Louisana. " of I he con-
stitutions of 18()4, t852, etc.. was not rechartef^d
or provided for, in the constitution of 1868. The
" Uniyersity of New . Orleans/' as contemplated and
provided for by the present constitution of 868, has
never ;>een chart* 'ed and established by the Lc
lature. Therefore, ;n no sense, can the Academical
Department of the old " Qnriversj y of Louisiana " be
legally and properly considered to >e a departmenl of
an institution, which has never existed, namely, of
" the University of hew Orleans" <i\\(\ whiel
under the constitution of 1868. did it exist, would he
entitled to a portion of the poll-ta:

If \a ui.-:aiia cou'd afford in money to do what in

other State in the Union attempts Iq do — have two
Academical Departiftents of Stair Universities, she can-
not afford il in sentiment — in the affection and love
which she must give the Iwn. to make them a success.
A man naighi afford in money to have two wives, but in
affection and lore, and in the well-being of his family,
he could not afford it. Equally Impolitic, foolish and
mad. would il he for Louisiana, with her scanty popula-
tion, out of which to cultivate a strong sentiment or
spirit of State love and State pride, to divide her affec-
tions between two rival State Academical Colleges. No:
we can now have one, and no more; and let us not he
guilty of the folly of attempting to have two.

Colleges and Universities cannot be built of money
alone, of brick and mortar, nor indeed of able profes-
sors simply. A college is a family; and there musl
gather around it .the affections of its children — of
its alumni ; else all State effort is in vain.

Take away from the great schools of this country —
from Harvard, Yale. Princeton, the University of Vir-
ginia, the sentiment, the spirit, the love, the affection of
their students, and indirectly through them the respect
and veneration of the general public: and you have a
body without a son/ — the form and paraphernalia of a
college without its animating spirit. No; sentiment is
better than money to build up a school, a church, a
family, a nation, or any party or sect.

What Louisiana stands most in need of to-day is. not

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'••ve. money oven I- pay its State deBt; ot otHer

demonl of material prosperity; bul it is a banding to-
gether of her people into one brotherhood— h fusing of
us all in spirit- -from Arkansas to the (hull and from
Mississr pi to Texas — into one mighty; deep- irresistible
current of State [>fide and Stale love. A id in no way
ean W( bring this about so well as lo have a proper
system of public education : 1st. Free schools that shall
reach 'very child, rich or poor, in the State : and. _M.
A Stale University that shall serve as a groat reservoir
o( thought and learning, to feed the numberless public-
schools in every neighborhood, in every parish, and that
shall gather around it, and centre upon it, the love and
affection, and prayers of every man. woman and child
in Louisiana.

There are many stars in the heavens, and but our
sun. So. there sliduld he many scJiobld in Louisiana,
but all to receive their light ami vitality from one L'ni-
versih/. Hither let thorn come and leplenis i themselves,
and then go bac\ and make distribution among their
pupils and ;he people. Let it be so that—

•' Hithe as to their fountains other stars
Kepairin ■;. in their golden urns, draw light."

Th ■ great commentator on English law has well said
that •the sciences are of a sociable disposition, and
flourish best in the neighbdrhood of each other.'" It is
truly a misfortum to Louisiana hat all the departmen M
of her State University cannot well he together, at U.V

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same I x at ion. Hul the reasons for their s< paration are
msupei iblt ; no one 1< ality ran be found in the State
whnv ea/l and every lepdrtment would best 'hrive.

Nor is L tuisiana aloh< . ofthe States, in this particular,
(jfeorgia has the Acadei i< and Law Departments other
University at Athens, ai I the Medical Department down
in Augufcta. rnion I'm Tsify (fbrrtierty Union Col-
lege) ai Rchfclifcetady, \e\ York, ha- its Law and .Vedi-
eal Depar metfts at Albany. Keiitu ky University, at
Lexington Tennessee I diversity, a! knoxville. and
California University, at I "rkrley. have their Niedkb)
Departmeh ^Respectively in Louisville, Nashville and
Sau Kranei <*o.

No; the several depart ients of a great institution of
learning cannot always be together. Desirable as it is
to have then, associated actually together, the public
interest may demand that they be separated — that each
be located wWere it may do nost good. Hut let no State
commit the fol'y of bavin- a double set 6f smdi depart-
ments, and, above all. of ftm. or more, Academic Depart-
ments of a State University

Law and Medical students should hav«' had a good
academical raining, and that th y should recei • .
together. a1 the same Ac; lennra Institution, at
one and < nly one, Academical Department of the
State University, Thus, would the Law ai I Med-
ical students in Sew Orl ins have a coumc n aim a
mab r in the country an Law students an I >!■

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cal students, and Academic students, would all be
inspired with a common love for the State University
and all its departments. The University, however sep-
arated and distant its several departments, would thus
he one: one in its charter, one in its spirit, and one in
the affections of the people.

Such a University. Louisiana ran foster and make
flourish: hut she can have only qne such. Aiid mich
a University — the middle-aged and the old looking back
at it with pride and affection, and the youth of the land
looking forward to it with hope and ambition — will do
more to make Louisiana one in sentiment and sympathy,
and united in all the moral elements that go to make up
a great and glorious people, than all other human
agencies combined.

Nor is this idea of making the State University, at
Baton Rouge, the literary and scientific department of
I lie University of Louisiana, or of combining that
institution and the Law and Medical Departments in
New Orleans under one charter and in one corporate
name, a new one. As far back as 1858, you will find
reference made to it in the Annual Report of the Super-
intendent of Public Education to the Legislature, with
the remark, that 'he understands that a memorial will
be presented to that body, praying for legislation to
that effect.' In L866, a committee of the Legislature
confeiTeci with I he administrators, and other officers, of
the University of Louisiana upon the subject. Nothing
further, at that time, was done, because there was some

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doubt whether it was then constitutional (o make such
union. So, the matter rested until 1878 — all the while,
however, from 1858, or before, the question was alive
in the minds of some of the ablest and best men in the
State, hast year it was actively revived; and the lead
then taken in its favor by those who are now its chief,
opponents, the Board of Administrators of the Uni-
versity of Louisiana, in New Orleans.

That Board of Administrators asked the Legislature
to pass what became the twenty-first proposed amend-
ment to the constitution of the State, by which the
fusion — into one and the same Institution — of the Law
and Medical Departments of that Institution, in New
Orleans, and this Academic Institution here, in Baton
Rouge, could be effected. But the ink was hardly dry
on that paper of their own making — the proposed twenty-
first amendment, before that Board, in the absence of
some of its ablest and best members, repudiated their
own act, and set to work to defeat the twenty-first
amendment (which they themselves had asked the
Legislature to pass), and to resurrect their Academ-
ical Department, after it had lain in its grave eighteen
years !

This they were enabled to do, by having obtained
through the forms of the law, yet wrongfully and im-
properly, twenty-five per cent, of the poll tax of the
Slate, since 1868; money wrenched alike, by the
remorseless tax-gatherer, from the poor man in the
country and the poor man in the city, whose own chij

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dren arc left without proper schooling — to educate
rich men's sons -in New Orleans.

Should your honorahl 3 hody not appro\c of the
views, as ahove expressed, and re-charler the University
of Louisiana, as it now is. let us all cheerfully acquiesce,
and hope that it may be supported as liberally as
possible from the treasury of the State, without which
aid the Academic Department will but surely repeat its
former history — dead one day and dying the next?
Respectfully submitted,

DAVID F. BOYD.
Baton Rouge, La., July 7, 1879.

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